DIRECTOR'S REPORT FOR 1o0r.* 
To the Honorable Board of Control of the New York Agricultural 
Heperiment Station: 
Gentlemen.—I have the honor to present herewith a report 
for the year 1901 of the institution under your charge. As in 
former years, this report, outside of the matter dealing with the 
various lines of inspection, is made up chiefly of the results of 
investigations and experiments of a scientific or -semi-scientific 
character. In other words, it is mainly a presentation of the 
outcome of efforts to study problems or conditions important 
to the practice of agriculture and is not intended, for the most 
part, to convey information of a common or general character. 
This is in accordance with the well established policy of holding 
the Station to the work of investigation rather than of instruc- 
tion, a policy entirely harmonious with fundamental con- 
ceptions and the legal provisions applying to this institution. 
The contents of this report make it very evident also that, 
excepting the inspection work, the members of the Station staff 
are dealing largely with problems particularly affecting the 
dairy and horticultural interests, a condition of things quite 
consistent with the status and demands of the agricultural 
industries of New York. Dairying is predominant in the stock 
husbandry of the State and the commanding importance of our 
vardening and fruit interests cannot be denied by any one 
familiar with the facts. Moreover, in dairying and fruit grow- 
ing there come to the front certain questions of a chemical, 
botanical, bacteriological or entomological character, so specific — 
and so well defined, that they offer promising and useful oppor- 


*A reprint of Bulletin No. 211. 
